I’ve been making homemade wine and cider for almost eight years, and because I find it so rewarding, thought I would share how easy it is to do.

One of my favorites is mead (aka honey wine). Following this simple recipe you can produce a high quality “show mead” (which is a basic mead with no additional ingredients like spices or juices) with very little investment in money and/or time. Additionally, I’ll suggest ingredients and/or equipment to...

Beginning in the mid-1990s, I noted a growing disaffection for the status quo. It seemed, to me, that the economy was being run, deliberately, in a fashion that was designed to destroy it. I perceived a purposeful effort by the establishment to disenfranchise average Americans in an attempt to create conditions of life that would force them to accept global tyranny and one world government. From my earliest memories, I had always had an independent streak and loved DIY and self-sufficiency....